What does the Set Registry mean to you?

BJ

Hi Everyone,

This is a special time for the PCGS Set Registry now that we have reached the 10,000 set level. I'd like to do a little publicity of this landmark event. If any of you would care to share a couple of sentences of what the Set Registry means to you and allow me to use your comments in a promo, I'd be most grateful. Either add your message in this thread or send me a personal email. I would like to use your real name and/or your forum name, city & state.

Hey, I know. I'm blatantly fishing for testimonials, but it's not like they have been hard to come by! Over the last 3 years I have received many wonderful emails from our members without saving the mail. I'd just like to re-capture some of what you have already told me!

Thanks very much in advance.

Russ

The PCGS Set Registry has afforded me the opportunity to be exposed to great coins and great collectors without the need to get off my ass.

Russ, NCNE

Dennis88

The PCGS set registry is great for education. It is also a lot of fun to search for nice high end examples to put in your set, so you can increase some places....

Dennis

DrPete

The PCGS registry site has opened an era of coin collecting that dovetails with the modern coin collector. Coins can be listed and described and viewed anywhere in the world at any time. Coin collectors now have the ability to see how their set stacks up against other current collectors and certain classic collections such as Eliasberg. I am very glad that PCGS supports the set registry and it has helped me meet and correspond with other collectors with similar interests I would never have found otherwise.

Peter K. Shireman, MD


AKA

quattrocoins

Knowledge, and getting to meet and interact with dealers and other collectors that I would never meet otherwise.
It has lead to me owning a couple of high-end sets that would have been much harder for me to do without the registry and our accompanying forum!

Don

egsantos

PCGS registry is the good and productive side of the ego

Edson Santos MBA

Cocoinut

BJ,

Thanks for allowing everyone the opportunity to participate.

My comments from last week's thread:

1. It provides an incentive to actually complete a set. Since the advent of certified coins, I had collected haphazardly, and had assembled a good accumulation of coins, but very few complete sets. The Registry is a lot like having the coin albums of years past, and fuels the desire to complete sets.

2. Keeping track of what is owned is a great benefit, not only to ourselves, but to our heirs.

3. A good way to store and organize images. I wish I could keep my coins at home to study and enjoy them, but for security reasons they're kept at the bank, unless I'm taking photographs. I also like to let others see my coins, and view the photos others have posted.

4. To communicate with others interested in the same series.

5. Ego and competition are factors, but I don't expect to be #1. I'll leave that to others with deeper pockets.

Jim

Boom

The Registry competion has inevitably made me a much better collector/grader.

The plethera of knowledge on these Boards has done so as well. Actually, I enjoy

every aspect of it all-even having the ability to agree to disagree freely and to hopefully

come away a better person as well in the process.

Colorfulcoins

The set Registry has forever changed the landscape of coin collecting. The Registry has created a public forum for collectors to display their collections and compare their achievements with peers. This paradigm shift has forever altered the hobby and has encourged more collectors to become involved as is clearly apparent in the Registry having reached 10,000 sets in just a few years.

Stuart

BJ: I totally agree with Cocoinut (Jim's) following comments quoted form his earlier post in this same thread:

1. It provides an incentive to actually complete a set. Since the advent of certified coins, I had collected haphazardly, and had assembled a good accumulation of coins, but very few complete sets. The Registry is a lot like having the coin albums of years past, and fuels the desire to complete sets.

2. Keeping track of what is owned is a great benefit, not only to ourselves, but to our heirs.

3. A good way to store and organize images. I wish I could keep my coins at home to study and enjoy them, but for security reasons they're kept at the bank, unless I'm taking photographs. I also like to let others see my coins, and view the photos others have posted.

4. To communicate with others interested in the same series.

5. Ego and competition are factors, but I don't expect to be #1. I'll leave that to others with deeper pockets.

badger

The set registry got me interested in coins again.

I am more focussed on completing a set rather than scattered collecting.

The set registry is an electronic coin album with worldwide exposure. This broadens the hobby from coins to photography, economics and communication with other collectors.

David Winkler - Collector
Greensboro, NC

Steve

The PCGS Set Registry is a fun place to "show off" my coins and communicate with other coin collectors about our wonderful hobby.
Steve

Mistercoinman

I just think its great, before the registry we had to wait for shows, or gather at our local coin shop to share the excitement, of new coin finds each month. With the forum I can share my joy of collecting with other collectors of the same interest the same day I recieve them. I have shared and purchased many coins from fellow forum members and spend many hours here ( much to my wife's displeasure ) keep up the good work.

STEWARTBLAYNUMIS

The Set Registry has caused some of the wackiest prices for common coins in uncommon grades in Numismatic History.I want the Finest and I'll pay whatever it takes to get that coin.PCGS population Reports determine the pricing of PCGS graded coins for the Set Registry.The Set Registry has created competition parallel with Olympic competitorswithin the coin industry.PCGS has a product that is accepted by collectors from coin dealers and auction houses.

stewart blay

JrGMan2004

The PCGS Set Registry has allowed me to show off the coins I've found with other collectors who share a similar interest. At the same time, I've been able to see thousands of wonderful coins, that I normally would never get the chance to see, and all without traveling all accross the country.

-JrGMan2004
Lakeland, FL

Kriek

The PCGS Set Registry is good conversation piece, a welcome mat for aspiring numismatics, and an open door for experienced collectors.

Regards,

Jon Kriek
Lakeland, Florida

RegistryCoin

It means that you get to know me...
... and I get to know Stewart.

relayer

I hardily endorse this event or product

cosmicdebris

PCGS Registry is the next best thing to being there. Where else can you view some of the greatest PCGS Graded collections in one place?

P.S. See sig line for a great marketing tool for the UK Registry ( Those Babies are going to Drop Dr. Terner down a peg )

MadMonk

The set registry has done a lot for me, and the hobby. It's almost like a giant coin club, where the members actually have a chance of meeting other collectors of the same series, or of a differant series, broadening our horizons. Sometimes, if Photos are included, we have the opportunity to see some spectacular collections. It has also afforded me a vehicle to keep track of my sets in addition to gaining perspective of the commonality or uniqueness of each set. I plan to start a few sets for my son in the registry with the idea that it will provide him with a goal, and a regiman to complete that goal. It's just the one of the very great things to happen, for the coin collector, that I can think of, in my 25 years in the hobby.

Keyrock

First it has exposed me to numerous collectors who have the same interest in the series that I collect. This helps in expanding the knowledge of the series and helping to fill the holes getting ever closer to realizing the goal of completeing the series.

Additionally, It does provided a backbone to collecting with respecto the structure (basic set, basic set with major varities etc).

Exposes collectors to all types of series and collecting strategies (i.e. short sets).

On the negative (maybe positive if you own the coin) it has created some dramtic price fluctuations which may or maynot be real.

Generally it is a great chance to talk to fellow collectors about those little metal disk, how they are made, their condition and where you can get one.

Rich

Stooge

PCGS has literally changed the coin collecting hobby as we know it.

It was very much a singular hobby in which most collectors did not have anyone with whom to speak to about their coins. Now...there are fellow collectors with questions and answers, along with dealers with coins for sale. You can also use the registry as a inventory tool, able to access your coins in a matter of seconds, while at the same time join in friendly competition.

Also, I would never have collected single proof coins before the PCGS slab came alone. The slab provides proper storage for coins.

Paul B. Gunsallus
Rockford, Illinois

skate4357

PCGS Set Registry is like Golf.
#1- When you are teeing off as you are learning the game.
You just don't know where the ball is going.
#2- When your in the middle of the fairway on the approch shot.
You always seem to be between clubs.
#3- When your on the green lining up the putt.
You always seem to leave it short.
PCGS Set Registry means all of the obove for me. It is a learning experience, test of knowledge which I learn from fellow collectors and dealers. The ability to broaden my horizons with the intent to have a #1 Registry set. (which I have)
Thanks to my Dad and all the other Registry set folks that has helped me in my Registry quest.
Mike YN
M.E.Stewart Collections

merz2

BJ
Take a look at the post Doug Wright made.Quite a few of us made our feelings known on there.

jcping

My two cents:

1. It provides an incentive to actually complete a set. I started to collect standing liberty quarters in 1988. Without the Set Registry, I am still fooling around my set. With the help from the Set Registry, I was able to focus on it and complete it early this year.

2. It provides invaluable information to me to start a new set. Right now, I am working on the grand-daddy type set.

3. It allows me to know wonderful folks of the same interests. We meet at the major coin shows. This gives me more reasons to visit coin shows.

dbldie55

1) Satisfaction on adding each new coin to the set (always had incentive as I hate "holes", but nice to see it get completed)
2) As others have said, meeting other collectors. The highlight for me at last years Baltimore show, which I went to for the 1913 Liberty Nickels, was meeting so many other members of these forums. Meeting other people with like interests is the true reward for the registry.

BowAxe

Pure fun.


Dell


Pittsburgh Collector

Waldo

ability to broaden my horizons with the intent to have a #1 Registry set. (which I have)
Thanks to my Dad and all the other Registry set folks that has helped me in my Registry quest.
Mike YN
M.E.Stewart Collections
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O.K. I only look at Roosie's and only in the very recent past, Jeffs. What's your number one set?

ccrdragon

It's the perfect vitual coin book - I can look at my sets anytime, anywhere, and even if I can't hold them in my hands, I know what I have and what I need to complete the sets!!!

CarlWohlforth

The Set Registry is a virtual coin album and the forums an online coin club. It is neat to be able to view and talk about great collections. Many people have gone to the trouble of posting photos of their most interesting coins. That makes for a great learning experience. Thanks for hosting the Registry!

BJ

Thank you all for your terrific feedback. I really appreciate it!

cladking

Perhaps the most valuable aspect of the registry to me is to be able to see what other
collectors have done. The pictures of their collections is an invaluable reference.

lava

I'm an attorney practicing in Hawaii. I only collect Morgan silver dollars, and my passion is to find examples that are prooflike or deep mirrored prooflike, and of course, they must be professionally graded. The registry system has helped create a barrier-free environment that enables me to see my collection next to other collections of the very coin in which I concentrate my focus. Regardless of age, education, location or financial worth, I am able to track my registered set and see how it compares with the finest collections of all time and the finest collections presently. Much to the relief of my wife, I have been able to share my passion for mirrored Morgans with others who share my same passion. The registry system has been a shot of adrenaline to the hobby, and to my collecting in particular, and it is no surprise to me that coin prices have moved steadily upward since the registry system was created. It is also no surprise that the registry system has continued to grow and attract new members and new collections, serving to continually reinvigorate the hobby. I now have one of the finest collections of mirrored Morgans, and I have been able to interact with the owners of the other finest collections. That is no small accomplsihment considering I am on a rock in the Pacific, where a mirrored Morgan probably never actually circulated back in the days.

Lava,
Diamond Head collection of pl/dmpl Morgans

cladking

ttt

coincollector1989

The PCGS registry offers me the comfort to know that someone else will be keeping the coins I own inventoried.

pontiacinf

The PCGS set registry not only allows me the opertunity to showcase my wonderous coins and accomplishments to others, but also allows me a chance to revisit my "finest of" sets
that I have since disbanded and sold to others. The picture feature also allows me the opertunity to see high end classic coins without having to visit the Smithsonian.

Its the best thing that has ever happend in the world of Numismatics!

relayer

More importantly, what does it mean to Mr. Platinum?